{{quote|I am [...] very deeply in Auden's debt in recent years. His support of me and interest in my work has been one of my chief encouragements. He gave me very good reviews, notices and letters from the beginning when it was by no means a popular thing to do. He was, in fact, sneered at for it.|[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Letter 327]]}}

{{quote|I am [...] very deeply in Auden's debt in recent years. His support of me and interest in my work has been one of my chief encouragements. He gave me very good reviews, notices and letters from the beginning when it was by no means a popular thing to do. He was, in fact, sneered at for it.|[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], [[Letter 327]]}}

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[[Category:People|Auden, W.H.]]

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==Bibliography, selected==

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===Articles===

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*[[1954]]: ''The New York Times'', October 31

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**"[[The Hero Is a Hobbit]]" [Review of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'']

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*[[1956]]: ''The New York Times'', January 22

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**"[[At the End of the Quest, Victory]]" [Review of ''[[The Return of the King]]'']

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*[[1962]]: ''[[English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday]]''

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**"[[A Short Ode to a Philologist]]"

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*[[1962]]: ''The Texas Quarterly'' IV

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**"The Quest Hero" (reprinted in [[Tolkien and the Critics|''Tolkien and the Critics: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's'' The Lord of the Rings]] (1968) and [[Understanding The Lord of the Rings|''Understanding'' The Lord of the Rings: ''The Best of Tolkien Criticism'']] (2004))

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*[[1968]]: ''Critical Quarterly'', Volume 10, Issue 1-2, pp.138-142.

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**"[[Good and Evil in The Lord of the Rings|Good and Evil in ''The Lord of the Rings'']]"

"I am [...] very deeply in Auden's debt in recent years. His support of me and interest in my work has been one of my chief encouragements. He gave me very good reviews, notices and letters from the beginning when it was by no means a popular thing to do. He was, in fact, sneered at for it."